LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.30 p.m.

on 25th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the Irish ship River Avoca required a doctor to attend and bring ashore a member of the crew suffering from severe and continuous stomach...

Short but effective service by D class saves fiveThe RNLFs Chief of Operations has written to the crew of Burry Port's D class inflatable lifeboatcommending the quick, positive thinking by the helmsman, good seamanship and boat handling...

THE series of Exhibitions held in London during the last few years would certainly have been incomplete without one to illustrate the history, development and progress of the Navy. Such an under- taking could not fail to enlist public...

SEVEN MEN RESCUED FROM DUTCH MOTOR VESSEL Anstruther, Fife. At 9.30 on the morning of the 2nd November, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Netherlands motor vessel Muskctier of Groningen, was aground on Balcomie...

Fowey, Cornwall. At 12.26 on the afternoon of the llth July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sailing boat was on the rocks to the west of Fowey harbour.

There was a gentle southerly breeze and...

The lifeboat house ai Skegness makes good use of us position in the middle of a busy esplanade. Both Mersey and D class are on view and a souvenir shop does good business. - View image in PDF

FEBRUARY 2 3RD. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 5.45 in the evening the coastguard reported that a fishing boat, which had been unable to enter Whitby harbour owing to heavy seas, was making for Scarborough to shelter, and at 6.5 the motor life...

Swanage, Dorset.—At 5.50 on the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1954, the St. Aldhelm's Head coastguard rang up to say that a motor boat appeared to be in difficulties about two miles east of the Head. At six o'clock the life- boat R....